The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-09-02
SUnlARY or THR NEWS.
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g.. W. Wflkine, an extensive lumber dealer
Of Pittsburg, Pa, has made an assignment.
A. Hoyt, cashier Of the Patnam county
New York, Savings Bank, IL . defaulter to
the amount Of ec5,c0o.
Gen. Black, commissioner Of pensions, IL
seriously III at Weirs, New Hampshire, where
he Is the guest OF the veterans.
Prof. Spencer E. Baird, OF the United States
Dish commission, died at Woodruff, Masea-
chussets, ut s:45p. M. Friday.
Mrs. Payne and her daughter, Of New York,
committed suicide believing themselves to be
insane n fearing the madhousc.
George Brtnski, the man who claimed to be
Cleveland's substitute, died at this soldiers
home at Bath, New York, Saturday.
Ii was determined that jay Gould's grand
son should be named Kingdom Gould, the
first Of which is Mrs. Gould's family name.
Thomas Dott, a farmer of Gibson, Pa, was
fatally stabbed Tuesday morning by q Ger.
man farm-hand whom he had discharged be.
Cause there was no york for him.
Gravensteen & Peel, Of New York, m.
nounced an assignment on Thursday morn
ing. Liabilities were estimated at about e..
s '0,0c0, with nominal assets about e2O0. 600 600.
Discoveries of iron ore in paying quantities
have been made In Allamakee county and q
company has been formed ut Rockford, ILL.,,
with a capital Of t4,0O0,0O0 to operate the
same.
Charles F. Miller, a we'll known lawyer OF
New York, and his wife, both died Friday
morning at their homo, in New London,
Conn.,, Of pneumonia. They leave five
children.
Peter Gross, aged s%eventy.four. of East
New York, was arrested Tuesday morning for
the murder Of his wife, Gertrude, sgyd sew.
cnty. The Old man and his wife have alwsys
been hard drinkers.
Owing to a young OPERATORS falling asleep
and allowing a freight train to pass his sta
tion, on the Chesapeake aud Ohio road, Mon.
day, a collision occurred, and fifteen cars
were burned, but no one was killed.
AT Morrowville, Pennsylvania, Tuesday
afternoon, while Two men were repairing q
j'int In the main pipe, the gas ignited from q
lamp. An explosion which followed killed
onc and seriously injured two others.
R.v. Fathers Ryan of Memphis, and
Brcmer Of New Orleans, have gone to New
York to present q memorial from southern
Catholics to Rev. Father McGlynn. The
paper expresses sympathy for DIR. McGlynn.
Alvan Clark, who lad q worldwide repu.
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f~scturer of telescopes, and who has been a
resident Of Cambridge, Massachusetts,, for
the past afty-two years, died Friday morning,
aged SO.
Henry George says In relation to the action
OF the Syracuse convention, that he was per-
sonallY sorry that the socialist delegates
were excluded, but that the element had to
be got rid of to make the position of the
Labor party clear. "Wc are not socialists,n
sal he.
press. going west on the Pan Handle road,
ilmied the track near skelly's station Tues.
day afternoon and was precipitated over an
embankmcnt into the creek. Engineer George
Thompson was terribly scaldcd and will die.
Several other train men were injured.
The cannon ball train on the Union Pacific
raj" ay due at Dodge City Wednesday morn.
ing at 4 o'clock, ran iIto the rear of a freight
t.sin standing on the main line In the yard,
lerai!ing and tearing Into splintcrs the cahoose
AID three cars. Freight Conductor j. N.
Z lott, who was in the cabocsc, was fatally
injured.
The steamer Atlas, for the West Indies, re.
tuned to New York Friday, having been in
collision with the schooner Lizzie Wilson,
frc1n Baltimore to Boston, Thursday, off
B,rnegat, N. j. The schooner sank immedi-
at.l.:, carrying down the wife and daughter of
the captain and two seamen. The Atlas res.
cued Captain Chadwick and three sailors and
brought them back.
ssThcre was a large meeting of socialists at
Cooper union, New York, Monday evening,
ca'l d to d%enounce the action of the Henry
Gc,rgeitcs. Speeches were made and reso!u.
'ions adopted dcnouncirg George, his plat.
+, M, and following. Esery mention Of his
namc was the signal for cheers, Kisses,
g-oens, etc. A red flag was carried into the
hal and waved from the platform amid great
APPLAUSE aud Kisses.